Places afakhori Wants to Go

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

The site of slaughterhouses that once satisfied Parisians' taste for horse meat is now home to a park and book market.

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A network of underground water channels that dates back to the Middle Ages.

A collection of grotesques lines the walls of this Italian villa.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.